Gabrielle Union Quotes

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.

I'm friends with Kehlani - she's a LGBTQ icon.

Now that I'm out there and it's known that I'm trans, I think that sometimes might hinder my opportunity in snagging a big cis role.

I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.

The work that needs to be done now is to diversify the picture of LGBTQ people so that people can see that we come from all races, different genders; we have trans people.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was a very camp bodyguard!

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

I was doing those roles on ABC Family late in the year, and at the same time, I was auditioning for 'Galavant.' But 'Galavant' was quite a wide casting call. I wasn't recommended or anything. It just kind of happened.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

It's harder in the States. I'm much more inclined to get offered things that are a lot straighter and heavier and dramatic. And they go by looks, too. If you look like a leading man, then that's what they will consider you for.

I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.